Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Silkie Is Becoming More Affectionate

Friday morning, I explained to a dear
friend that my Silkie was nowhere near as affectionate as any of my previous
gazillion kitties. However, Silkie is also my first shelter cat. The others all
came to me either by accident or by way of friends.

Silkie was 1-1/2 when we brought her home. She was a big
girl. And she hid under the one bed for three days.

That was back in January of 2013. So, she’s been here in
this home for almost 2-1/2 years.

It took her a whole year to first sit on my lap. And that’s
not exactly as it sounds. She doesn’t sit on my lap. She waits until I get onto
a now-deceased family friend’s lift chair and waits until I raise the footrest
and am leaning back, almost fully reclined. Then she’ll hop up and stretch
lengthwise from chest to tops of thighs. She will sometime fall asleep there,
for up to an hour.

And it took about that long for her to first purr.

During the night, she will occasionally jump onto my bed and flop, from groin
to chest, on my belly, for no more than 10 minutes.

Other than that, there is no real display of affection. Oh,
well, I don’t count the meow when she wants food, or wants the back door open.

Once in a great while, she will take a kittenish swipe at my
foot as I walk past her.

So, after I opened my big mouth and bemoaned the fact that
this one was not really affectionate, she ups and does some new things. Two,
within a day or two of each other.

The other day, I had to walk barefoot from the front
of the house to the back of the house because Silkie had fallen asleep with her
head on my one slipper (sigh) - she's never done that before and it's so
"cat" and it was so "cute" - I just couldn't disturb her!

Now, tonight, another new gesture. I like to sit outside at
the top of the back steps in the evening, reading whatever magazines have begun
to accumulate. Usually, she’ll use this sort-of bonding quality time by sitting
at the bottom of the steps, or on the cement driveway nearby. Tonight, she
decided to stretch out right beside me on the landing at the top of the back
steps. Then, surprisingly, she snuggled up alongside my hip and thigh. She
stayed there for over half an hour.

So – now, I’m wondering. Did she somehow ‘bug’ my purse
Friday morning and hear me worrying about her lack of affection? Or is she
finally relaxing a little and trusting me more?

I hope this means she is slowly
overcoming whatever she went through in her first home. It’s such a wonderful
feeling when she shows she cares – even if just a little.

2 comments:

I think cats are more independent.....but I do think she heard you and has decided to make a liar of you....cats are like that. I have a doggie who was a rescue dog....she still has a few little flaws and it has been 10 years we have had her. Thank God for dogs and cats....they show Gods compassion when we least expect it.Have a good day, hope you are staying cool. I see that it has been in the 3 digits lately.

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